MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sukhdev mean?
Sukhdev joins sukh, happiness or well-being, with dev, a deity. The name can also reflect Shukdev, the sage Shuka, son of Vyasa. Shuka narrates the Bhagavata Purana to King Parikshit in that tradition.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਸੁਖਦੇਵ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुखदेव
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sukhdev in Indian usage
192,249 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 17,566 records (9.1%).
- Recorded as male: 174,683 records (90.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 5,454 |
| 1940s | 17,729 |
| 1950s | 30,090 |
| 1960s | 40,427 |
| 1970s | 39,925 |
| 1980s | 37,878 |
| 1990s | 19,610 |
| Other decades | 1,136 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 88,508 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,094 |
| Jharkhand | 17,333 |
| Bihar | 16,891 |
| Rajasthan | 15,536 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 13,891 |
| Haryana | 12,580 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,702 |
| Maharashtra | 1,979 |
| Delhi | 1,696 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,343 |
| Chandigarh | 451 |
| Other states | 245 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, sukha, p. 1221,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śuka, p. 1079,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.